Today’s Tasks: 1.Please visit the course website. On the Course Materials and Assignments Page, please download this PowerPoint and also the rubric for your final literacy self-study. 2.Today, we will talk first about strengthening analytical writing, and then about MLA citation.

What does an analytical paragraph include? For this assignment, most paragraphs need: A connection to your narrative References (quote/paraphrase) to a class source. (This may be left out if the previous paragraph has a quote/phrase and you are continuing analysis on this same concept) An explanation of how that concept related to your narrative. An explanation of what you are able to understand about your narrative by using this concept that you couldn’t understand before. NOTE: Like all heuristics, this will not necessarily work for every single individual paragraph. Depending on the structure and organization of your paper, these elements may be spread out over more than one paragraph from time to time.

Sample Analytical Paragraph: Values systems in families, schools, and communities shape the forms our literacy takes. Growing up, my parents did not place high value on any kind of electronic gaming – especially games without a clear educational purpose – so I did not have the same kinds of technological literacy many of my peers did. This situation shows a conflict between two major sponsors of literacy: family, and school. The school system valued technologies that made literacy more computer-mediated. My family values hand-written literacy, physical books, and library research. This conflict came to a head near the end of high school, as I was taking more AP classes, and researching and applying to colleges. My parents saw that having limited computer time and limited internet then restricted my literacy development (especially in research and writing). Brandt writes, “Sponsors deliver the ideological freight that must be borne for access to what they have” (168). If I wanted to access all of the resources my school offered (and my teachers expected), my family had to take on those ideological expectations. The institutional values and pressures outweighed my family’s values. This conflict also shows the effects of access on literacy. As Brandt says, “Stratification of opportunity continues to organize access and reward in literacy learning” (169). My family could afford to have a computer and to have faster internet. Many students experience conflicts between what families want and what schools want, but if the family is not able to provide the technologies the school expects, the student’s literacies may be affected negatively, especially in comparison to peers with more economic resources.

What is this one missing? My narrative shows that my mother was a key sponsor of my literacy because she read books to me, and brought me up as a literate person. Sponsors are important. They provide access to literacy. Without my mother, I would not have learned to read books.

Your Turn! Color-code the following excerpt: (Previous narrative describes a high school class in Indonesia) Sponsors’ preferences in literature also shape the literacy of those sponsored. Brandt’s states that “literacy takes its shape from the interests of its sponsors” (168). If a sponsor favors a certain literacy form or shape, it is most likely that he/she will pass it on to those he/she sponsored. Because my high school Indonesian language teacher was interested in Indonesian politics, his syllabus for a whole semester consisted only of political articles and current events. His preference has exposed students to a certain form of literacy, and that exposure must have affected students’ literacy, as we became familiar with political conflicts past and present. Brandt writes, “Sponsors deliver the ideological freight that must be borne for access to what they have” (168). In order to do well in this class, I was required to read and write about Indonesian politics: this is the ideological freight that came with access to literacy. Even if a student did not care at all about Indonesian politics, he/she still became very familiar with them through this class.

In your literacy self-study: From the analytical section, pick one paragraph that you feel is very strong. Color-code it (look back at slide 2). Next, pick a paragraph that you think it short and too surface-level. Color-code it, and figure out what you are missing. Add the missing elements.

MLA Citations Visit Click “MLA” For anything from Writing About Writing, click “cite a book chapter.” Under “author names,” click “contributor.” Fill in the information and click “make citation.”

Two Other Citations Horton, Kathleen. “Auto-Ethnography.” Suckling at the Breast of God: Women and the Rhetoric of Faith. Diss. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Print. Dirk, Kerry. "Navigating Genres." Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Vol. 1. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, Web.